I'm not sure if this is a "wha?" or a "how could you not know?".
My partner (Canadian) and I (British) were talking about hypothetical dog names for our hypothetical dog, and I suggested Toby after the dog in A Study in Scarlet, and then she told me Toby was a racist slave name, but she couldn't remember why. Is this a thing? All I could find online was a dialogue reference from Eastbound and Down, and, more pertinitently, that Toby was Levar B's slave name in Roots (I haven't seen it). Anyway - Toby: yes or monstrous?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
nothing other than Roots comes to mind
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Toby was the dog in the Great Mouse Detective. "Toby, sic 'em!" or some such thing.
― how's life, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
my friends' dog is called Toby. as far as I know they're not racists
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Mr Punch's dog is called Toby
― koogs, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
I think of Toby jugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Jug), a Shakespearean character, Toby Keith, and a nickname for Tobias before I get to slave names.
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
that is the question
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
my grandparents had a dog named Toby
― mh, Monday, 4 June 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
dammit Darragh I was just about to post a Toby or not Toby quip
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
look i hadnt all day and god forbid it was let slip yknow
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
My cousin, who is AA, named her son Tobias. Don't know if that disproves anything, but I think this theory is dubious at best.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
"People hear the name Tobias and they think 'big black guy'"
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
t/s Tobias from Arrested Development vs Tobias from Animorphs
the word holiday comes from "holy day"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
god forbid it was let slip
Arf.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
Just today realized that the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, and Woodstock all occurred within the span of a few weeks.
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Yeah I learned about Chappaquidick & the moon landing today too
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
That there is actually a musical instrument called jingle bells.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 9 June 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
Disgust and distaste are pretty much the same word, etymologically speaking.
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I love how redundant and fucked up English is that way“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
how deadly hippos can be
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
I've only realized in the last few months that with the exception of steaks, maybe, you really don't need a knife for eating.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Lettuce
― Alba, Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
peas
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
foetii
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Celebrating Saturday, I see.
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 June 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
life begins at dinner
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 June 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
the fool playing chess with Brian Glover in The Slaughtered Lamb is Rik Mayall.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 June 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
I am watching the Thor movies for the first time tonight. I am shocked. This shit takes place in space? That is a a disappointing copout.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
It doesn't, though? Those aren't the same stars (or if they are then someone in the art department has massively fucked up)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
everything takes place in space tbf
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
woah
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!
and artefact means "made by craft", which leads it to have two weirdly different meanings:- a precious object made by skilled craftsmanship, e.g. a museum artefact- an unintended junk byproduct of the production process, e.g. a jpeg artefact
(it also has two valid spellings but not sure it gets any less confusing to spell the two meanings differently)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 10 June 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
That there’s prize money for winning the World Cup. $38 million for this year’s winner, $28million for runner up etc...
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
don't think i've ever thought about it!
― the Messi inside (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
Does it go to the FAs or the players? I had a quick Google and couldn’t find out, but did see that this year’s $794 million is $400 to the competitors* (everyone gets at least $8m) and the rest to the players clubs both for using their players and potential payouts if they get injured.
*again FAs ot players I don’t know.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
I just found out recently that my club will earning something like $40 grand a day whilst it's Danish/Australian international are still in the competition, which likely won't be very long - but it's a nice earner if none of yr players get massacred!
― calzino, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
Split between FA and players? At least in USA. X amount for the group games, another X if you get out of the group, and so on.
― let’s get real (alomar lines), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i've never been clear on the meaning of the word "chauvinism" / "chauvinist" until today.
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 11 June 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Huh. Having just looked it up, apparently neither was I.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
I guess its been used in the "male chauvinism" context so much the other usage has faded?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
the og French indie rock stan!↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
"..from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, notoriously attached to the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' popular 1831 vaudeville "La Cocarde Tricolore "
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
according to Wikipedia... not quite? they have 2 separate entries. Spring rolls are listed as Chinese (and they look like what we get in UK, although I expect ours are some kind of inferior abomination) while Egg rolls have their own page as a Chinese-American dish, and they look different in the pictures.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
well they're closer than what i imagined which was some kind of omelettey thing
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
and what about California Rolls - why California? This is Japanese food non?
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
oh... so apparently it's not Japanese, it's like the Balti - invented in California and used to popularise sushi in other countries
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Can I join your club?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Yeah til a while ago I thought egg rolls were some kind of reverse-sushi thing with an omlette, not just a bloody spring roll.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
OK egg rolls seem to be deep fried. Now I'm thinking theyre more like Chiko Rolls (google it)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link